what might you suggest as an alternative ?
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Good question. This republic we have in America might be the least worst way of humans organizing themselves that we've come up with thus far, but it's still a shit idea.
It probably worked better for the first while when not everyone had a vote. Now the path to leadership in this country is to be the best at duping the masses with appeals to their base emotions.
Radical decentralization. Restoration of absolute individual liberty. Only two laws: don't hurt people (physically) and don't take their stuff (as long as it was gotten in a consensual fashion).
Or, just roll back the fedgov back to 1791 and restrict voting to those who have no debt.
Yes but not enough to change the structure of government. The culture needs fixing. Our centers is higher education have been corrupted by liberal permissivism and are churning out technically smart people with no moral compass.
Yes, but if we somehow axed the fedgov, those overeducsted idiots will get smacked by the big, black reality that is real life, and then they either die or they grow.
This 'liberal permissivism', sneer quotes times two, is neither liberal nor permissive; it is not liberal because it is supported and orchestrated by people whose mindset is anything but liberal (the term originally meaning free-spirited), it is not permissive because it seems solely pemissive towards people and activities that the so-called liberals seem to approve of, it is hostile to those that they do not (meaning conservatives, republicans, libertarians, constitutionalists, and anyone that are usually derided using x-ist or y-phobes).
Or to put it another way - 'liberals' broadly seem to be enamoured to vices, destructive, belligerent behaviors and things that most liberals of the past would find deeply il-liberal.
thoughts on ethnonationalism as a solution?
It makes me uncomfortable to think about, as it can easily be corrupted towards much more nefarious ends than that of people sticking to like people. And it's not something really reliable across humanity as a whole. It does seem to work fairly well for populations that adopt a largely cohesive Christian faith on top of their ethnic background, but outside of that, not so much. If ethnonatuonalism worked by itself, you would have much less warfare abd societal strife in areas that were primarily controlled by atheist, Islamic, and Bhuddist regimes.
So, it needs to be tempered by something that prevents tribalism and othering.
tribalism and "othering" is the foundation of all proper civilizations...
the rest is antichrist psyop grift.
I disagree. Shared principles are not the same thing as tribalism. Also, tribalism usually ends up in slaughtering others, which, is not good both in the short and longer terms.
and what would you base those "shared principles" on ?
WASP-y everything, plus English common law.
and what would those be based upon ?
Too much stuff for me to want to type it out?
maybe just pick a big three
Luther, Locke, and eventually Bastiat? Those are the ones that pop into my head guest.
and Luther's source ?
The Bible.
tribalism and "othering" is the foundation of all proper civilizations...
the rest is antichrist psyop grift.
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Tribalism happened after the tower of babel. Which is not a good thing. Othering leads to atrocities.
biblical law is tribal
How so?
OK, I see where you're getting this from, but also realize that Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, and had a much broader, harder to follow command for his followers, so, I'll stick with my own assessment and politely disagree with your belief since I'm not will enough equipped to disabuse you of the notion that you should follow the old testament law in everything.
Shared cultural values are the glue that holds a society together. The values held up by Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture gave rise to the greatest civilization in human history. If you look around the world, you will observe that other societies that successfully adopted the same values have also prospered.
Casting these values aside has lead to social and moral decay in our society.
We must reaffirm these values and root out moral corruption in our society if we are to survive as a civilization.
Yup. That's a really good summary. Aside from the political imperialism that isn't healthy, it really has been the best thing for humanity, in my estimation.